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Present Status of Research Center for Structural Thermodynamics
  (Yasuhiro Nakazawa)

Prof. Tadashi Inoue Received SRJ Award for 2018

Prof. Kenji Matsuno Received Osaka University Award for 2019

Prof. Hidetaka Furuya Received the Zoological Society of Japan (ZSJ) Award for 2019

Ms. Yuki Matsumura Was Honored as Student Travel Grants in Multiscale Phenomena in Molecular Matters 2019

Days Spent at the Laboratories

• Prof. Watson Loh
  Prof. Gregory Randall Stewart
  Dr. Pattara Siripanich and Dr. Malee Sinchow
  Prof. Ashis Bhattacharjee
  Prof. Li-Xian Sun
• Letter from Prof. Watson Loh
• Letter from Prof. Gregory Randall Stewart
• Letter from Dr. Yoji Horii
• Letter from Dr. Mariko Noguchi

Report

• International Internship at Institut Néel in Grenoble
• The 55th Workshop of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis on Nano Structure and Thermal Properties on Solutions and Liquids
• Obituary: Prof. Alan Leadbetter (1934-2019)
• Preparation for a Novel Freshman Seminar Course and the Demands in it
• International Conference on Fine Particle Magnetism (ICFPM2019)
• Opening Symposium of Research Center for Thermal and Entropic Science
• Multiscale Phenomena in Molecular Matter (Multis2019)
• The 74th Calorimetry Conference
• The Seventh International Symposium on the New Frontiers of Thermal Studies of Materials

Introductory Review of the Researches by the External Staffs

1. Challenge to Unveil How Proteins Work
2. Immunohistochemical and Direct Mass Spectral Analyses of Plautia Stali-Myoinhibitory Peptides in the Brain and Corpus Allatum of Plautia Stali
3. E and Id Transcription Factors Regulate Cell Chirality to Induce Left-Right Asymmetric Morphogenesis of Gut in Drosophila
4. Spin Liquid Behavior of Element Substituent MgTi2O4
5. Lyotropic Liquid Crystallinity of Linear and Star Poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s: Isotropic-Liquid Crystal Phase Equilibria in Tetrahydrofuran
6. Viscoelastic Properties and Molecular Dynamics of Semiflexible Polymers
7. Biology of Dicyemids

Construction of New Apparatuses

1. Two Experimental Devices for Measurement of Mechanocaloric Effects in Elastomers
2. Development of the Heat Capacity Measurement Technique for Electric Field Controlled Organic Salts
3. Development of a High-Resolution Magnetocaloric Effect Measurement System

Introductory Review of the Researches

1. Thermodynamic Behavior of Multi-Step Spin-Crossover Complex
2. Heat Capacity and Phase Transitions of the Ionic Plastic Crystal NEt4+CPSO3-
3. Heat Capacity and Phase Transitions of Bulk VO2
4. Heat Capacity and Phase Transitions of Ring-like VO2 Fine Particles
5. Heat Capacity and Phase Transitions of Deuterated Thiophene
6. Very-Low-Temperature Heat Capacities and Low-Energy Excitations of Normal and Deuterated Thiophenes
7. Low Temperature Heat Capacities of NO Encapsulated in Open-Cage Fullerenes
8. Thermal Behavior of the Order-Disorder Transitions in β-1,3-D-Glucan Aqueous Solutions with Different Degree of Side Chain Branchingg
9. Dynamic Heat Capacity and Relaxation Process of Polybutadiene by Temperature Modulated DSC around the Glass Transition Temperature
10. Measurements of Mechanocaloric Effects and Heat of Deformation of Plastics
11. Self-Assembly of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) on Graphite Surface Studied by In-Situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
12. Heat Capacity Measurement of π-d Interacting Organic Magnetic Materials by Microchip Calorimetry Method
13. Investigation of Ferromagnetic-Ferrimagnetic Transition and Spin Entropy in Cyano-Bridged Compounds by Heat Capacity Measurement under High Pressure
14. Observation of Anisotropies of the Spin Structure and the Critical Field of Superconductive Phase by Angle Resolved Heat Capacity Measurements
15. Instability of the Superconductivity near the Mott Boundary Region of Dimer-Mott Organic Charge Transfer Complexes
16. Thermodynamic Study of Organic Superconductor with the Quasi-2D Triangular Lattice Structure
17. Anomalous Heat Capacity Behavior in Charge Separated Suplamolecular Salts
18. The Effect of Molecular Rotation of Ammonium Ions to the Conductivity in Organic Charge Transfer Salt
19. Impedance Measurement of Charge Order Systems in Organic Conductors
20. Negative Differential Resistance Effect and Tunable Negative Magnetoresistance in the Candidate of Massless Dirac Fermion System α-BETS2I3

List of Papers Presented (2018/2019)

List of Publications (2018/2019)